周辺の天然記念物・トップ5

Great for playing poo sticks

Here stands an unexpected outcrop in the shape of a wall made up of Coventry Sandstone, also known as Corley Rocks. It's a magnificent place to stop and admire some rock formations that are thought to have been there since the boundary of the Carboniferous and Permian periods.

"THE KING'S OAK" this tree has grown from an acorn from Widsor Forest, planted by the Rev. T.W Downing, Vicar of Knowle, on the day of King George's Coronation June 22nd 1911.

Set in the heart of the historic Knowle Village, the park proudly sits on the previous grounds of Longdon Hall. Popular throughout the year with families, a particular highlight is the Knowle Park annual music event, attracting picnicking people from the village and far further afield.

Along with the viewing and pond dipping platforms and willow sculptures, new benches and interpretation panels have been installed. A sand martin bank has also been constructed in order to provide a vital safe nesting site for this species of bird, and can be viewed safely from the viewing platform. This project is part of the Tame Valley Wetlands – a landscape partnership scheme supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, aiming to create a wetland landscape, rich in wildlife and accessible to all. The Tame Valley Wetlands Landscape Partnership is led by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust in partnership with a wide variety of organisations including charities, local groups, statutory bodies and councils.

The Community Wetland project itself cost £110,000 and was funded through Biffa Award, the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Howard Victor Skan Charitable Trust and the Environment Agency. It was led by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and Warwickshire County Council, working together in partnership as part of a series of landscape improvement projects being delivered through the Heritage Lottery Funded Tame Valley Wetlands Landscape Partnership Scheme. The 6 hectare wetland has been transformed from disused waterlogged football pitches and restored to its original function as the floodplain of the River Tame. It now consists of new water channels, scrapes, ditches and reedbed, helping to restore floodplain connectivity.

They look as if they have been used for short climbing... Just lift Corley...

The name "Berkswell" has long been attributed to the presence of the well - "In Domesday book it is written Berchewelle, having first had that denomination (as I guess) from the large Spring which boileth up on the South side of the Churchyard" wrote the Warwickshire historian Sir William Dugdale in the mid 18th century. The English place names society suggested that the name Berkswell means Well or Spring of Bercul, a personal name that is found in Mercia ( wherein "Berkswell" lay) in the eighth century. Christianity had been brought to this area by travelling monks from Lichfield. A local leader, Bercul, is said to have been baptised in the well. The well was the source of water for many villagers, including the school, right up until the mid twentieth century. In the nineteenth century a pipe was laid from the Well to Berkswell Hall where a hydraulic water ram lifted it for use in the Hall up until the eve of the second world war. The well was refurbished in to its present form in 1851.